New Year's Disc 2020
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Hello everyone!
Welcome to this years edition of NYD!
It was a hard year for me in 2019 - a big not expected thing happend to me. So
it was not so easy to create something for the A8. But I didn't want to stop
this tradition and even if I had no clue, what to code myselves I started the
call for entries at November 8th 2019.
Gunstar and eMKay where about the first who had contacted me and eMKay just had
a nice tune ready, so I had an idea, what I could try to code and asked both to
help. But due to some more problems here, time ran out to do a nice production.
At the end I had to cancel this project, to have at least one thing ready for
NYD 2020. Again: Sorry Gunstar and eMKay that I did not complete the thing and
your work is not presented as we had planned.
I really hope to come back to this project and make it to a presentable and nice
thing.
Ok, now back to this NYD...
My little intro should run on NTSC or PAL, but should be watched in PAL, as the
colours are not set for NTSC - sound runs well even at 60 Hz PAL machines this
time. Tools used to do this are: Rasterconverter, mads, graph2font, ATARI Font
Maker, Raster Music Tracker, WUDSN - Thanks to the authors of these tools. The
music was ripped from a modfile ebbhead made in 1992.
Other words from the people who had made the projects are added below the
lineup.
We hope you all got well into 2020 and will have fun watching, listening and
yes, PLAYING!!! There is imho a very well done game there this time :) At least
my daughter had some minutes of fun playing the ATARI, yet.
This NYD's lineup:
NYD2020 Disc 01 - multidisc.atr
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2020 (intro) by PPs
Happy 2020 (256 Byte) by F#READY
Happy New Year (animation) by miker
SEGA Rocky (PAL picture) by Gunstar
Runner Bear by playsoft & friends
Ei aus der Taiga (intro) by eMKay
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ED 128kB======008/1040 sec free
NYD2020 Disc 02 - NewTek demo (Filippo Santellocco)(pal).atr
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NewTek Demo (PAL slideshow) by Philsan
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ED 128kB======007/1040 sec free
NYD2020 Disc 03 - multidisc.atr
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Mines (BASIC 10 liner) by Fabrizio Caruso
Ei aus der Taiga 2 (intro) by eMKay
Air fist Rocky (PAL picture) by Gunstar
Snowfall (intro) by Philsan
Boris & Farage (picture) by snicklin
2020 (intro) by TiRED
Doomfire (intro) by Wrathchild
2020 (NTSC picture) by Philsan
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ED 128kB======057/1040 sec free
NYD2020 Disc 04 - cartoon slideshow (Sikor).atr
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classic cartoons slideshow by Sikor
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ED 128kB======274/1040 sec free
NYD2020 Disc 05 - multidisc.atr
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Ei aus der Taiga 3 (intro) by eMKay
2020 (PAL picture) by Philsan
Champ Rocky (PAL pictrue) by Gunstar
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ED 128kB======342/1040 sec free
NYD2020 Disc 06 - multidisc.atr
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Neon (320 kB animation) by miker
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DD 180kB======063/0720 sec free
total count:
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6 discs======0751/5920 sec free
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------------------------------------------------------------------2020-01-01 PPs
authors words:
F#READY - Happy 2020
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Happy 2020
Atari Invasion
256 bytes thingy for New Years Disk
F#READY, December 2019
Snow routine ripped/optimised
Credits: Claus Buchholz 1981, Xmas Tree Demo
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Fabrizio Caruso - Mines
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- Atari Basic 10-liner strategy game
- game available for many platforms (github.com/Fabrizio-Caruso/mines)
Instructions:
You are in a minefield where mines appear both
- under your feet once you move and
- around you (more if you do not move)
You can clear the area around you with anti-mine charges but you can only carry
a maximum of 9.
If you reach a "$" item you get an extra anti-mine charge.
The field has upper and lower borders that kill you if reached. Left and right
borders wrap around.
The rate of mines appearing around you increases continuously.
Goals:
- reach the highest score possible by walking on empty positions or collecting
charges "$"
- avoid stepping on mines or the upper and lower borders
- reach the next 100 points to get a full recharge of your anti-mine charges
Score:
- walk into an empty position: 1 point
- walk into an anti-mine charge "$": 5 points
Controls:
- use I J K L keys to move
- use SPACE bar to clear nearby area (if you have enough charges)
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Philsan - NewTek demo
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- inspired by Amiga NewTek Demo Reel #1 (1987)
- images ripped from Amiga, edited and converted with RastaConverter program
by Ilmenit
- slideshow code by PPS
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Philsan - Snowfall Atari
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- compiled Turbo-Basic XL
- graphics 7 image edited and converted with Atari Graphics Studio program by
Tebe
- RMT player by Raster, adapted for TBXL by Marok
- original Atari Basic snowfall code by Fred Key (1986)
- Depeche Mode Little 15 tune by JaKub Husak (2010)
- packed by Homesoft
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milpool/TiRED - 2020
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: TiRED - 2020 - Atari 8Bit intro :
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.// TiRED sends a happy new year to :
: the atari scene with this little .
: intro. GFX/Music/Code by milpool! .
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Wrathchild - Doomfire
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This demo I initially worked on in April 2019 after converting the original
Javascript into a C and Allegro prototype on Windows.
The aim was to then port take that code onto the UNO Cartâ€šÃ„Ã´s ARM processor to
see it running on the A8 but that hasnâ€šÃ„Ã´t been done yet.
There were two flavours, a 2x2 pixel mode for 2 rows of Graphics 10 per square
at 80 pixels wide or 4x4 pixels for 4 rows at 40 pixels wide.
For the NYD 2020, I have converted the C into 6502 assembler and first tried to
see if the 2x2 version would run ok on a stock machine.
It was almost acceptable but I chose to move to the 4x4 mode instead and this
works fine.
Coding was done across 3 days from 29th-31st Dec but has taken about a day
overall.
NTSC/PAL is detected at startup and colors/colours are adjusted accordingly
however the music will run a little faster on NTSC.
Having listened through the Winter Olympiad 88 songs, initially I was thinking
to use the Biathlon tune but preferred the Downhill one in the end.

New Year's Disc 2019
----------------------------------------------------------------------bonus disc
A little late for releasing it right at NYD2019 I received a nice intro by
Mad Team at the evening of 01.01.2019. It would have been a pity, if it would
not get into the light it was designed for, so I asked if it is ok to release
on a bonus disc...
So here we go! Have fun and enjoy this well done intro!
NYD2019 Disc 06 - bonus disc.atr
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intro by Mad Team
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ED 128kB=======762/1040 sec free
------------------------------------------------------------------07.01.2019 PPs

New Year's Disc 2019
-----------------------------------------------------------3rd corrected edition
Welcome to another edition of the NYD!
After last years immense count of 10 discs, we are back at "normal" count and
finally after a "Super Packer session" we have 5 discs with 26 gems for you.
This time we have a very special guest at the NYD who don't wants to be named.
Thanks for sharing your work with us.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019!
The lineup:
NYD2019 Disc 01 - multidisc.atr
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Hello 2019 (intro) by PPs + miker
Impresstro (intro) by emkay
Happy 2019 (256 Bytetro -> in fact 245) by F#READY, Atari Invasion
Picture 01 (winter time) (picture) by Mario130XE
Picture 02 (steam train) (picture) by Mario130XE
Picture 03 (winter town) (picture) by Mario130XE
Picture 04 (2 bunnies) (picture) by Mario130XE
ATARI 800 - 40 years (NTSC version) (picture) by Philsan
Bean And Gone (picture) by snicklin
Limbo Is Over (picture) by snicklin
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ED 128kB=======39/1040 sec free
NYD2019 Disc 02 - Nailrace Pak.atr
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A nice pak with some different versions of Basic10Liners Nailrace coded by
Rockford. Don't touch too many nails, now even a 2 players race is possible.
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ED 128kB======707/1040 sec free
NYD2019 Disc 03 - multidisc.atr
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James Pond Intro (intro) by emkay
ATARI Invasion Invitation (intro) by ivop
Xmas 2018 (intro) by PPs + emkay
ATARI 800 - 40 years (PAL version) (picture) by Philsan
New Year Pig (animation) by miker
Happy New Year (picture) by "John Doe"
2019 (PAL version) (picture) by Philsan
2019 (NTSC version) (picture) by Philsan
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ED 128kB=======70/1040 sec free
NYD2019 Disc 04 - multidisc.atr
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noiz15kHz (intro) by emkay
mode11 revised (intro) by PPs
Happy New Year (128 kB animation) by miker
DSR_NYD19 (intro) by Desire
WinTin (intro) by skr
Gojira retired (picture) by Sikor
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ED 128kB=======20/1040 sec free
NYD2019 Disc 05 - New Year Girls (adult).atr
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game for adult people with two different playsets (and more if demanded)
by Sikor + miker
Sikor says:
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NEW YEAR GIRLS
Sikor entry for NYD 2019 with a old music made by Miker (with his permission).
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Game is another clone of JAN-KEN-PON (scissor-paper-stone) game with ADULT
CONTENT. So, rules are simple:
- scissor beat paper
- paper beat stone
- stone beat scissor
Use joystick and enjoy it. If you load NYG.XEX (man file) from DOS (tested with
myDOS) - you can load other sets of opponents (always two). I add two set for
this file now:
- BASIC.NYG - it is standard set, putted into main file
- SET1.NYG - other two girls and other music
If someone asks for - I'll do a simple tool to make other sets. Sets must
have .NYG extension with property format. After load of new opponents - colors
on title are set as in first picture in file.
O.K. How to play:
- to start use joystick left or right and hit fire
- to load new opponents - put joystick down and hit fire, if there are opponent
sets on disk - you can choose one with joystick
- when you play - use joystick left/neutral/right to choose your object
- you have limited time, but - if you know, what you can choose - simple hit
fire
- opponent now draws the item
- if you win - 1/9 part of picture will be uncovered
- you have 5 tries
- after play simply hit fire
HAPPY NEW YEAR and enjoy it!
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Credits:
- idea, code, additional gfx, font, tests: Sikor
- music, graphics choose, graphics convert, moral support: Miker
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Greetings to all atarians! Happy New Year!
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ED 128kB======374/1040 sec free
total count:
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5 discs======1210/5200 sec free
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New Years Disc 2017 - bonus disc
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Just after the release of the NYD I received another entry. So here it is:
NYD2017 - bonus disc (Enhanced/Medium Density)
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Snowplow NYD 2017 (game) by therealbountybob
Notes from him:
- - - - - - - -
Here is SnowPlow a game from Analog Magazine Issue 64 (Editor was in Issue 65).
Full Info on the game here http://www.atarimania.com/mags/pdf/analog_no_64.pdf
We're playing the game in the HSC, released copies only had 1 level which was a
bit disappointing, so I have created a 2nd level and added one that came with
the editor as the third level, plus I've done a mini 4th level which I have not
tested.
The game is simple but fun - you can PLOW the cars to rescue them for more
points!! You can make 1 jump using the fire button. The storms come on more
frequently as time goes by. Probably a good one for children too.
The game returns to the title screen after doing each level - press Start and
the next level is loaded so leave the disk in/attached.
DOS Disk with snowplow.com renamed to autorun.sys level files SMAP/01/02/03
are loaded in file order not name order.
Best Wishes for 2017
therealbountybob
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Happy New Year 2017!
PPs

New Years Disc 2017
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Happy New Year!!! We (full crowd is listed below) are proud to present you
some stuff to enjoy watching, listening and playing just when the new year
is new born.
Disc 1 - multidisc (Enhanced/Medium Density)
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NYD 2017 (intro) by PPs
Prosit 2017 (picture) by Mario130XE
Neon 2017 (animation) by Miker
Goodbye 2016 (picture) by Snicklin
Carrie Fisher (NTSC & PAL) (intro) by Philsan & Jimpack
Snowman SID (music) by Wrathchild
Happy New Year 2017 (intro) by Tigerduck
10 Liner Invitation (invitro) by Sascha Kriegel
Note: NYD 2017 has no NTSC testing, so sound runs to fast and colors are not
set correct. Small Effect doesn't care about NTSC too. So both of my new years
gifts better run on PAL. Hope to release them later with NTSC support.
Disc 2 - multidisc (Single Density)
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ATARISID 6 (sounddisc) by Ivo van Poorten
A disc full of SID sounds.
Disc 3 - multidisc (Enhanced/Medium Density)
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MD201701 (intro) by Cosine
CX2626 Miniatur Golf (game) by Playsoft
Camelight 2017 (intro) by Desire
Happy 2017 (intro) by Miker & friends
Disco Zax (music) by Miker & XXL
Small Effect (1 screener) by PPs
Get Lucky (intro) by Playsoft
Hotpunk (picture) by Mario130XE
Happy New Year! (intro) by PopMilo
Multi Twisters (intro) by TeBe & Rocky
Notes for CX2626 from Playsoft:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Instructions for the original VCS version can be found here:
https://atariage.com/manual_html_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=305
The VCS controls are mapped to the following A8 keys:
start = game reset switch (begin game)
select = game select switch (select one or two player game)
option = tv type switch (colour or black and white)
1 = left difficulty switch
2 = right difficulty switch
Additionally the + and - keys can be used to adjust the vertical display
position.
Disc 4 - Dozerattack (Enhanced/Medium Density)
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Dozer (game) by Rockford
Dozer is a game written in TurboBasic from some old sources. Have
fun shooting the enemies.
Disc 5 - Blowjobb part (Double Density)
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NYD2K17 (intro) by Blowjobb
Note: Disc boots into DOS. Type N*.* and hit Shift-Return to run the intro.
Disc 6 - Soco Maniac (Ehanced/Medium Density)
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Soco Maniac (1996) (game) by Matosimi
Note: Matosimi started this game when he was 12 and finally released it to the
public with this NYD.
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Happy New Year 2017!
PPs

New Years Disc 2016
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Hello 2016! Hope you all got well into the new year and now are prepared for
our little greetings:
Disc 1 - multidisc (Enhanced/Medium Density)
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Getting into 2016 (3 screener) by miker & PPs
Chi Bao (sound) by emkay
Happy New Year (picture) by Mario130XE
Fireworks 2016 (animation) by miker
Blowsub (game) by Playsoft
Note: Getting into 2015 contains a TIP, that is not displayed 100% correct in
the demo. You'll find the original Y2016.TIP file on disc 5 for full pleasure.
The music should play correct on both PAL/NTSC - the color palletes are PAL
optimised.
Disc 2 - multidisc (Enhanced/Medium Density)
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The Gift (soundmenu) by Agenda, MEC, Lamers & 505
Made with ATARI 800 (PAL) (intro) by philsan
Bam 2016 (intro) by Creature XL
Filtermod (sound) by emkay
Rocky Horror Show (PAL) (intro) by philsan
NYD 2016 Nessie (game) by Sikor
Note: philsan has rendered both pictures with PAL palette (on this disc) and
with NTSC palette (on disc 4 and 5) for full pleasure regardless your
tv system.
Disc 3 - Codeman (Enhanced/Medium Density)
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Codeman (AUTORUN.BAS) (game) by Rockford
It's a Turbo Basic MindMaster type game.
Disc 4 - multidisc (Enhanced/Medium Density)
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Happy New Year (picture) by Mario130XE
MD201601 (intro) by T.M.R.
Darklight (sound) by xxl
Mr. Bean (picture) by snicklin
Happy New Year Baby (animation) by miker
Made with ATARI 800 (NTSC) (intro) by philsan
Disc 5 - multidisc (Enhanced/Medium Density)
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Rocky Horror Show (NTSC) (intro) by philsan
R.I.P. Lemmy (picture) by Stephen
Happy New Year (picture) by snicklin
Y2016.TIP (picture) by miker
Note: For viewing TIP on ATARI simply use tipview from eru. It's included in
the TipTools. You can find them here: https://github.com/epi/TipTools
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Wow, 10 times NYD and every time some new people and some 'residents' doing
stuff for our ATARI. It's a pleasure to have that amount of creativity no
matter if one is a coder, a painter, a songwriter, a profi, a beginner or what
ever. Every entry brings a big smile into my face no matter on what level it is.
The fun being creative is/was my main intention when I first asked for some
snippets of your work and always, when I ask you again :)
We have seen a lot of cool things over the passed years. Hope to get even more
in the future.
Now have fun with this year's edition!
Happy New Year 2016!
PPs

New Years Disc 2015
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Another year, another NYD :)
Following people have done something to make you a happy start into 2015:
Disc 1 - multidisc (Enhanced/Medium Density)
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Xmastree 2015 (1 screener) by PPs
MasterIt 2015 (little game) by PPs
Quarrion preview (game preview) by matosimi
Intro 2015 (intro) by Desire
Happy New Year 2015 (animation) by miker
New Year 2k15 intro (intro) by blowjobb
NYDS (intro) by Sikor
Happy New Year 2015 (intro) by miker & Sunday
Comic Squares (PAL only!) (intro) by MaPa & PG
Note: QUICK source code of MasterIt 2015 is on the disc, too.
Disc 2 - multidisc (Double Density)
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Fireworx (320 kB minimum!) (animation) by miker
Fireworks 2015 (intro) by PPs
Disc 3 - multidisc (Enhanced/Medium Density)
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Inc Year (intro) by TMR & blex
Laglance (final version) (picture) by ming
D.I.T.C.H. (game) by Morons
Rej (picture) by ming
New Year (picture) by Irgendwer
Strictly Gone Bananas (game) by Paul & Harvey & miker
35 year old one (picture) by PPs
Notice: Due to illness of Creature XL/Morons D.I.T.C.H. is buggy and in no way finished.
Hope he gets well soon.
Disc 4 - Dimos Quest NYD 2015 edition
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Dimos Quest NYD 2015 edition (game) by 8bjunkie
There are some special levels for us to play this New Year :) Yeah cool.
Creators of the levels are:
Level 01 by Bunsen
Level 02 by 8bitjunkie
Level 03 by Milan
Level 04 by 8bitjunkie
Level 05 by 8bitjunkie
Level 06 by T0bey
Level 07 by 8bitjunkie
Level 08 by 8bitjunkie
Level 09 by 8bitjunkie
Level 10 by yellowman
Level 11 by 8bitjunkie
Level 12 by yellowman
Level 13 by 8bitjunkie
Level 14 by 8bitjunkie
Level 15 by wizard
Level 16 by yellowman
Level 17 by 8bitjunkie
So now time to release the thing it's 2 past 2 pm (CET) here now and I'm late...
Thanks for all the entries.
Happy New Year 2015!
PPs
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some statements of the other people involved in NYD:
Paul Lay:
I didn't include any instructions as I ran out of time! Really it was more of an
experiment with the GTIA square pixel mode, the game itself is quite basic - you
have to move the joystick in the direction indicated by the arrows when they
scroll into the outlined area at the bottom of the screen (and a circle means
press the trigger). The best approach is just to touch the joystick in the
required direction and immediately release it.
Happy New Year!
matosimi:
hi, this is first time i contribute to nyd.
it is small game i was working on during november, but it might get nice polish by
PG and turn into serious production as all are used to get from me.
blowjobb (the original info file):
New Year 2k15 intro by
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code by: dely
audio by: liSu
greetings sorted by: miker
Happy New Year!
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New Years Disc 2014
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Happy New 2014 to everybody!
Another year has passed on the fly. So it's time for another edition of the NYD.
As always I was curious, what and if will get into my mail. Also I did something for myselves.
Sad enough I got ill this time during the days, I traditionaly do the coding stuff. But at least
one little thing is ready for presentation. This time my son got into his first 'coding session'
and as a proud dad I can show you his little code :)
Now let's have a look what's on the discs and who wants to send you some little New Years cheers!
NYD2014 Disc 1 - multidisc
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Happy 2014 by PPs
Twisthorizontal by DESIRE
Countdown (animation, 128kB+) by miker
Happy New Year (animation) by miker
Merry X-mas by my son Tim
Hey Mummy by ming
How deep is your love by Paul Lay
NYD2014 Disc 2 - multidisc
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Lunar Blitz by Cosine
Samba Gone Bad (parental) by Sikor & miker
Xenon Song #3 by tzeb
Bob the Snake by MaPa & PG
Last Glance by ming
Happy New 2014 Year by Sikor & miker
X:8 New Years Intro by Xuel & José Pereira & STE'86 & TMR
NYD2014 Disc 3 - Caveblaster
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Caveblaster by Rockford
Now have fun watching and playing!
HAPPY NEW 2014!
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Another year has gone. So let's start the new one with some fodder for the ATARI!Seems that this time we got the most entries of all the NYD ever :)

There are 7 discs and they're full of goodies for you.

I choosed to let the entry by Blowjobb on a single disc, as it looks better withthe real dos there. The gamedos used on the multi discs clears screen before startingto load and it reloads when a programm ends - normally right, but this time wrong.Start the disc and you'll see why :)

Notice there is a documentation by Synthpopalooza telling you all about the ipc filesin the package too.

NYD2013 Disc 5 - ipc viewer.atr-------------------------------After booting you'll get into a viewer, where you can load ipc pictures. More aboutthe whole thing can be read in the designated readme file. Synthpopalooza did a greatjob here. Simply press D and you'll see, what pictures are on this disc to load them.

NYD2013 Disc 6 - ipc pictures.atr---------------------------------Another disc with ipc files on it. Load them with the viewer of disc 5.